Challenge yourself to tat 25 motifs within the next 12 months and show us your progress. A motif can be a medallion, snowflake, heart, bookmark, butterfly, earrings or any small piece of tatting. Tell us where the pattern is from or if it's original. Post pictures on your blog, web page or photo page. Add a comment below the current post giving the location of your pictures and you will be added to the list of links.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Krystle has had a busy week and has made edging for two bonnets, one of which she includes the pattern for and she has been playing with plastic rings and has made a wonderful pair of earrings.

Charlotte has made a bookmark using a pattern from Jane Eborall website and thread she received from a thread exchange.

Vicki has made a little butterfly for a trading card as motif #5 in the challenge.

Jill is adding 3 more motifs to her challenge. She has made a cross, bookmark (love the colours) and an Easter egg cover.

Patricia has completed motifs 14 and 15 a shamrock and a heart for her challenge.

Angie has tatted an Easter Egg in Lisbeth thread and is counting it towards her 25 motif challenge.

Steph is still going egg crazy, but they are wonderful eggs and she has also added a cross to her collection.

Vinnie tatted Iris's second TIAS motif then added 4 more to make it into an interesting motif. This is #22 for her.

Ancolie used a Teri Dusenbury pattern to tat this split ring chain bookmark.

Wanda has tatted Nita's motif for her 13th motif. Nice choice of colours.

Claudia has finished her 25 motif challenge with shamrocks, some on paper clips and some made into a bookmark. She has also posted her first motif to start the challenge again and it is her motif for the tat and design group.

Heather has designed a neat dragonfly and tatted it in her Coral HDT. She also has been very kind and shared the pattern with us.

Tattingchic has some exciting news posted on her blog. Quick have a peek.

Aileen has been busy with angels and butterflies. She has tatted Wally's sequin butterflies and angels designed by Martha Ess.

Diane has fallen in love with a new tatting book and I would say a type of thread. She has tatted the first two snowflakes in Tatting by Myra Piper using Lizbeth thread.

Eva received an angel from Dyan.The pattern is "Leens Tatted Angel" by Eileen Stafford.

Joy has adorned to hankies. On one she made a lace border and the second one she made into an adorable bonnet.

Jeff was surprised by the positive feedback he received on his design-tat homework so he has posted the pattern on his blog.

Wally has had such a busy and exciting past week. She made a special scarf for her wedding and got married. She has posted homework from the design-tat group. There is a cute bunny to make us think of spring.Wally timed herself tatting a motif to see if it was faster to use a shuttle or a needle and as another reminder of spring she tatted a cute lamb. WOW.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Patricia has been very busy and has completed 6 more motifs for her 25 motif challenge. #8 She was playing around with creating different rounds. #9 is the “eight inch doily” from Easy Tatting by Rozella Linden. #10 is a variation of the Lacy Square and #11 is the Lacy Square also from Easy Tatting. #12 is the Oval Doily from Tatting Collage by Lindsay Rogers. #13 Was supposed to be a circle but didn’t work out mathematically, so it became a fan.

Steph is welcoming spring with some tatting. She has tatted her 19th Easter Egg from the book Tatted Easter Eggs in Altin Basik thread and has tatted a butterfly from the pattern by Edda Guastalla and can be found on Georgia Seitz's awesome website.

Vinnie is using a motif of her own design that was the homework for the Design-Tat group as motif #21 for the challenge. She has also fallen in love with a simple swan pattern.

Wanda has returned to the world of tatting after having to take a break because she was to busy. She says she was just doodling but I think the result it really nice.

Carolyn is nearing completion of her 25 motif challenge with motif 23 called Lacy Bookmark.

Nita is using a motif that she designed for the design-tat group as motif #9 for the challenge. Very nice design Nita.Diane has been busy and her first item is a bookmark adapted from tatted edge #2 from A Tatter's Workbook her second item is the second pattern from The Tatted Artistry of Teiko Fujito

Wally has been very busy doing homework. She had the Rose Heart for the online class, a doily for the Spanish speaking tatting group and a motif for the design-tat group.